"Anywhere you dig in Sebring you hit pottery shards. In some places they sit in parking lots or driveways, just waiting to tell us their history."
Vintage Fashion: Neckties
It all started with one tie. One taste of the forbidden or the rare or the exceptional and then, our viewpoint changes. The ordinary seems . . . well, just ordinary. The first necktie belonged to my father. He had a collection of old ties and I loved them! Silky and so funky. I inherited…
Vintage Fashion Earrings
Lately a lot of earrings! They are so interesting that they deserve their own little vignette. From Hand Painted Porcelain to Mod Sixties! Celluloid from the 1930s on a silver filigree back. Fifties Large Plastic Disc Clip Ons! Everyone needs one lipstick holder with a flip open mirror. Right? Vintage Fashion is fun – even…
Vintage Fashion Earrings – Flights of Fancy
Lately a lot of earrings! They are so interesting that they deserve their own little vignette. From Hand Painted Porcelain to Mod Sixties! Celluloid from the 1930s on a silver filigree back. Fifties Large Plastic Disc Clip Ons! Everyone needs one lipstick holder with a flip open mirror. Right? Vintage Fashion is fun - even…
The Gift: The Story of The Homer Laughlin Plate
Almost, thirty years ago, a package arrived postmarked from the Homer Laughlin Company, Newell, West Virginia quite unexpectedly. A few days before, we were at the International Housewares Exhibition in Chicago. It was a big deal, a really big deal. Now, as then, it was the biggest trade show in the country at one of the…
Lust and Vintage Linen
I am not sure how it happened. It all started in Missouri almost forty years ago . . . going to auctions and finding beautiful linens . . . looking for linens that were not polyester . . . finding vintage linens so soft, so detailed . . . handmade by women who cared about…
Ephemera
Ephemera is one of those words that when spoken sounds like its meaning . . . a soft, wispy sound like whisper and rhymes with chimera. Ephemera are things that last only for a brief moment in time . . . like whispers and chimera, ephemera lack real substance but not necessarily importance in everyday life. You might even say that we…
Pottery made in the Ohio Valley
I like restaurant china because it is built to last and tough to break in everyday use. Hitting it with a hammer will break it. But it is tough and durable. But I did not know anything about the history much less the economy of the along the broad swath of the Ohio River. For…